Hi Everyone
These are my latest conquests:
PowerBook Duo 210 https://plus.google.com/118338589625749894332/posts/QX81BxAqgaC
Not yet photographed are the original mini dock, floppy dock with hdi-20 floppy drive - both of which are in as new condition and function quite well.
It is due for new capacitors but that will never happen as there isn't a sole within 10,000 miles that does it haha. Turns on after holding the rear power button for 10 seconds and works just fine after you do that. Fascinating is the hard drive contents - I noticed a half finished Macintosh game a "Play by mail" fantasy board game. It runs okay but bombs a lot. The back story to the game, characters etc are described in word documents.
Secondly is the lovely PowerBook 170 https://plus.google.com/photos/118338589625749894332/albums/6079067181170128065
It came with the original power adapter which has electronically faded and does nothing. So I cleaned the laptop up and put it into storage. A few months later I came across an Australian video for the Macintosh Portable by Jason-Mac-Museum. He emailed me a link to a local parts dealer 'Jaycar' who stock a multi voltage power supply. I bought it and hey presto the PowerBook came to life - I really didn't expecy anything so it was cool hearing the chime and seeing the backlight come on. At first it had weird vertical lines but that quickly resolved after I man handled (haha) the screen bezel. The hard drive whirs then clicks a bit a stops doing anything but still spins. Refuses to boot from an external drive - perhaps the internal drive is sending weird signals to the SCSI bus. No time to open it back up and remove the drive to test my hypothesis.
I hope you enjoyed the photos and admittedly rushed narrative. There is SO many more conquests but it's time consuming getting everything cleaned, tested, photographed, organised etc.
These are my latest conquests:
PowerBook Duo 210 https://plus.google.com/118338589625749894332/posts/QX81BxAqgaC
Not yet photographed are the original mini dock, floppy dock with hdi-20 floppy drive - both of which are in as new condition and function quite well.
It is due for new capacitors but that will never happen as there isn't a sole within 10,000 miles that does it haha. Turns on after holding the rear power button for 10 seconds and works just fine after you do that. Fascinating is the hard drive contents - I noticed a half finished Macintosh game a "Play by mail" fantasy board game. It runs okay but bombs a lot. The back story to the game, characters etc are described in word documents.
Secondly is the lovely PowerBook 170 https://plus.google.com/photos/118338589625749894332/albums/6079067181170128065
It came with the original power adapter which has electronically faded and does nothing. So I cleaned the laptop up and put it into storage. A few months later I came across an Australian video for the Macintosh Portable by Jason-Mac-Museum. He emailed me a link to a local parts dealer 'Jaycar' who stock a multi voltage power supply. I bought it and hey presto the PowerBook came to life - I really didn't expecy anything so it was cool hearing the chime and seeing the backlight come on. At first it had weird vertical lines but that quickly resolved after I man handled (haha) the screen bezel. The hard drive whirs then clicks a bit a stops doing anything but still spins. Refuses to boot from an external drive - perhaps the internal drive is sending weird signals to the SCSI bus. No time to open it back up and remove the drive to test my hypothesis.
I hope you enjoyed the photos and admittedly rushed narrative. There is SO many more conquests but it's time consuming getting everything cleaned, tested, photographed, organised etc.
